Sargent Shriver, the firstPeace Corpsdirector, influenced my professional and personal development in two significant ways. In 1962, he visited with us, five Peace Corps nurses and two Peace Corps teachers, in Kuala Trengganu while on a worldwide fact‐finding trip. We gathered at the Peace Cor...
the largest Buddhist monastery in Europe and the hub of the international Plum Village Community of Engaged Buddhism. Over seven decades of teaching, he published a hundred books, which have been translated into more than forty languages and have sold millions of copies worldwide. ...
In the year 2000, the commercial space industry alone generated over $80 billion in worldwide revenue. (12) Conflicts in this arena are beginning to grow as crowding increases due to the finite number of unoccupied geostationary slots and the limited amount of unallocated spectrum. Militarily, ...
In a parody of an old science-fiction movie, a 1999 Weekly World News headline conveyed the world's trepidation over the coming turn of the millennium. The headline referred to Y2K, a worldwide digital calamity that never was. The panic was based on the idea that computers were programmed...
MercyCorps, a development organization focused on humanitarian relief, has built-in digital transformation to its core ways of working. Funded byCisco, it developed afive-year partnership‘centered on delivering humanitarian aid and development assistance faster, better and to more people around the w...